butterflynurse03 RN

I graduated from ECC. It's a good program. Clinicals are once a week but they are usually 8 hours. Then, before graduation, there is concentrated clinical time (96 hrs) that must be completed in order to graduate. Let me know if you have any other q...

If a person is started on some new medications and during their adjustment period there are some side effects that are....unwanted. If this person is sent home and told (by the occ health md) that they could not work in their current position unless ...

Hi, I just had surgery 3 weeks ago (TAH w/ BSO) and I am finding it extremely hard not to do all the things I tell my patients that they can't or should not do. Anyone here ever had this experience? Why is it that as soon as a nurse becomes the pati...

wow that was powerful..... you are an inspiration to us all. Thank you!!!!

I think I can honestly say that I was a pretty good patient while in the hospital. Shoot, I even managed to get out of bed and walk that first evening. My nurses/co-workers were amazed. My problem is behaving here at home now. I keep having to ye...

The ON-Q pain pumps are nice. I have had several patients that have had them with great success. Even a patient with a pulmonary lobectomy. You are not allergic to marcaine are you? Because that is the type of medication that is found in the ON-Q...

here here!!!!! Co-worker told me today that when she went to admit a patient he proceeded to tell her he was busy with a conference call and couldn't answer her questions right now...... Go figure that one, why was the patient even in the hospital?...

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"other information" at some facilities might simply mean that the info was given them by the patient or another facility and therefore they can't pass it on. Many facilities will only give you information that is generated by them primarily. Hope th...

I sometimes precept nursing students on my floor. One thing I like to always teach them is a very simple thing that no one taught me. Whenever I draw up a medication into a syringe, even if it's only one IV med that I am giving, I like to tape the ...

finishing the one year LPN moveing to chicago working at a hospital while im in school for RN?. I see only one problem. I live and work in the northwestern Chicago suburbs. None of the hospitals around here hire LPN's. I had to do either Nursi...

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Northern McHenry County Here (Woodstock, home of Groundhog Day) but work in Elgin. GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't ever let a doctor yell at you. He has no right. I have been yelled at by a doctor and made to cry myself. Another doctor asked me what happened and when I told him, that's what he told me. Be professional, pull the doctor aside and tell him ...

We also have sufenta in with the bupivicaine. However, due to the problems that can be seen with epidurals, our docs like PCA's better. I just had the same surgery done 3 weeks ago and I had a dilaudid pca. I did fine. Good luck to you.

Do what you need to do to make your life liveable. Remember that one of the first rules to controlling pain is not letting it get out of hand. I think of pain as a tiger that must be tamed. Once you tame it, you still must show it who is boss, yes? S...

thank you.....

Question: Do your pain medications impair you? Are you completely lucid, awake, aware, with no side effects from your medication? I ask because many meds, even non-narcotic meds, can impair a persons performance. Therefore, logic dictates that if th...

I get to write RN after my name.....lol. I just love taking care of people when they need it most.

Remember this, sometimes it is not a bitchy nurse, just a downright bitchy person who shouldn't be in the profession. Here, Here!!! This is only too true. As a "newer" nurse working with "older" nurses, I also run into this. Just the other dayh o...

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We just started with hospitalists at our location and have only two. But let me tell you that yes, they are great. They listen to the nurses, they look more closely at the patient precisely because they do not know them, and they are quick to respond...

If you are not using a pump? Clamp the tube...you might deliver too much too quickly if you do not. If you are using a pump, it wont run until you push "run" but it never hurts to make clamping your tubing a part of your routine. Just remember to mak...

Yesterday when I got to work and received my assignment, I noted that I had a patient that was admitted to the hosp with back pain. This patient came in through the ER and as part of her workup, they did a pregnancy test. The test came back positive ...

try putting a foley cath in a patient that had just delivered a baby..... Which hole do you pick?????